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<h2 class="Heading_2_no_table"><a name="top"></a>Using Search Effectively</h2>
<p><b>Click</b> or <b><i>Hover</i></b> on an item for more ...<br>
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<p>This electronic book (<i><b>Explorer++</b> - Help File</i>) contains a great 
deal of information about the program and its use.&nbsp; The manual is organized 
using menus and topics, but it may sometimes be difficult to find the right 
information!&nbsp; This book's <b>Search</b> tab can help in this regard, but <b>
Search</b> has <b>more power</b> than might be evident on the surface.&nbsp; 
Following are some hints for using <b>Search</b> effectively.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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    <td WIDTH="121" VALIGN="top"><b>use HIGHLIGHT</b></td>
    <td>On the tool bar, click <b><u>O</u>ptions</b> and make sure that the <i>
    Search Highlight</i> feature is ON.&nbsp; If the menu item says &quot;Search 
    Highlight Off&quot;, then the feature is already enabled.&nbsp; This feature will
    <font COLOR="#FFFFFF"><span STYLE="background-color: #0000CC">highlight</span></font> 
    items in the text that are found by the search.<br>
&nbsp;</td>
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    <td WIDTH="121" VALIGN="top"><b>use WILDCARDS</b></td>
    <td>The search utility normally looks for words (or phrases) <i>as-is</i> 
    (not case sensitive).&nbsp; This means that a search for the word
    <font COLOR="#FF0000"><b>divide</b></font> will not find any occurrences of 
    the word <font COLOR="#FF0000"><b>divides</b></font>&nbsp; Use wildcards to 
    expand your search:
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        <td WIDTH="30">&nbsp;</td>
        <td WIDTH="19" VALIGN="top"><b>*</b></td>
        <td>including an asterisk (ie. *) somewhere in the search target finds 
        more combinations of the target, just as it does from a DOS (or Command) 
        prompt.&nbsp; The asterisk stands for any (optional) <b>multiple</b> 
        characters.&nbsp; Using <font COLOR="#FF0000"><b>divid*</b></font> as 
        the target finds <font COLOR="#FFFFFF">
        <span STYLE="background-color: #0000CC">divide</span></font>,
        <font COLOR="#FFFFFF"><span STYLE="background-color: #0000CC">divided</span></font> 
        and <font COLOR="#FFFFFF"><span STYLE="background-color: #0000CC">
        dividing</span></font> as well.&nbsp; The search target
        <font color="#FF0000"><b>*divid*</b></font> finds all the previous, plus 
        will find <font color="#FFFFFF"><span style="background-color: #0000CC">
        individual</span></font>, etc.</td>
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        <td WIDTH="30">&nbsp;</td>
        <td WIDTH="19" VALIGN="top"><b><font SIZE="2">?</font></b></td>
        <td>including a question mark somewhere in the search target finds any 
        (mandatory) <b>single</b> character in that position.&nbsp; Using
        <font COLOR="#FF0000"><b>divide?</b></font> as the target finds
        <font COLOR="#FFFFFF"><span STYLE="background-color: #0000CC">divides</span></font>,
        <font COLOR="#FFFFFF"><span STYLE="background-color: #0000CC">divider</span></font> 
        and <font COLOR="#FFFFFF"><span STYLE="background-color: #0000CC">
        divides</span></font> but <b>won't</b> find <font COLOR="#FFFFFF">
        <span STYLE="background-color: #0000CC">divide</span></font> or
        <font COLOR="#FFFFFF"><span STYLE="background-color: #0000CC">dividing</span></font>.</td>
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    </table>
    <p>Enabling the <b>Match similar words</b> option will help to find plurals, 
    etc., but a wildcard search can be more versatile.<br>
&nbsp;</td>
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    <td WIDTH="121" VALIGN="top"><b>use PHRASES</b></td>
    <td>Searching for <font color="#FF0000"><b>ctrl key</b></font> finds 
    occurrences of both words in the same topic, but not necessarily <b>together</b>!&nbsp; 
    Using <font COLOR="#FF0000"><b>&quot;ctrl key&quot;</b> </font>(enclosed in double 
    quotes) treats it as a phrase and <b>only</b> finds that phrase.&nbsp; 
    Quotation characters cannot be found using the search, since they enclose a 
    phrase.&nbsp; Note that when searching for file names with extensions (eg.
    <font color="#FF0000"><b>EXPLORER++.EXE</b></font>), use a phrase also (eg.
    <font COLOR="#FF0000"><b>&quot;EXPLORER++.EXE&quot;</b></font>) otherwise the period 
    will separate the search into 2 distinct words.<br>
&nbsp;</td>
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    <td WIDTH="121" VALIGN="top"><b><a name="booleans"></a>use BOOLEANS</b><p>
    <img border="0" src="../images/boolean_menu.png" width="71" height="74"></td>
    <td>If you are looking for more than one word (or phrase), you may separate 
    them with one of the reserved boolean words to restrict your search:
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        <td WIDTH="30">&nbsp;</td>
        <td WIDTH="46" VALIGN="top"><font SIZE="2"><b>AND</b></font></td>
        <td>Topics must contain both words, eg. <font color="#FF0000"><b>tip AND 
        key</b></font> will <b>only</b> find topics containing <b>both</b> words 
        or phrases.&nbsp; Note that <font color="#FF0000"><b>tip AND key</b></font>&nbsp; 
        is equivalent to <font color="#FF0000"><b>tip key</b></font> .</td>
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        <td WIDTH="30">&nbsp;</td>
        <td WIDTH="46" VALIGN="top"><font SIZE="2"><b>OR</b></font></td>
        <td>Topics may contain <b>either</b> word or <b>both</b> words.&nbsp; 
        Searching for <font color="#FF0000"><b>ctrl</b></font><b><font COLOR="#FF0000"> 
        OR alt</font></b> finds topics containing either or both of the words, 
        anywhere in the topic.</td>
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        <td WIDTH="30">&nbsp;</td>
        <td WIDTH="46" VALIGN="top"><b>NOT</b></td>
        <td>Topics may not contain the word or phrase following NOT, as in
        <font color="#FF0000"><b>ctrl NOT alt</b></font>, which will find 
        occurrences of <span style="background-color: #0000CC">
        <font color="#FFFFFF">ctrl</font></span>, providing
        <font color="#FF0000"><b>alt</b></font> is <b>not</b> found on the page.</td>
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        <td WIDTH="30">&nbsp;</td>
        <td WIDTH="46" VALIGN="top"><b>NEAR</b></td>
        <td>Topics must contain both words or phrases, but <i>close together</i>.&nbsp; 
        A search for <font COLOR="#FF0000"><b>macro NEAR user</b></font> will 
        find phrases containing both words, but will not find pages where the 
        words are <i>far apart</i>.&nbsp; This search mode is not effective 
        where pages/topics are short, since <i>close together</i> and <i>far 
        apart</i> are not precise terms; <b>NEAR</b> works best on larger 
        documents or pages.</td>
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    </table>
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<h3 ALIGN="justify">&nbsp;</h3>
<h3 ALIGN="justify"><a name="docsearch"></a>Searching in the Document pane</h3>
<p>Once you are reading a particular page, it is also possible to search for a 
word or phrase <b>within</b> that page by:</p>
<ul>
  <li>clicking the mouse on the right-hand pane (ie. the actual page you are 
  reading), preferably near the start of the page. This sets Windows' focus on 
  the text, although usually no visible change is evident.</li>
  <li>press &lt;ctrl&gt;F to initiate the <b>Find</b> dialog</li>
  <li>follow the instructions in the dialog (simple search options)</li>
</ul>
<p>Unfortunately, the search highlight color in the document pane is not 
changeable; highlighting words which are already written in the highlight color 
(or close) renders them difficult - but not impossible - to see.</p>
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    <td width="3" bgcolor="#FFFF00">&nbsp;</td>
    <td width="10">&nbsp;</td>
    <td><b><font size="3">Tip:</font></b> If a global search has been done which 
    highlights certain phrases or words, and a search within that page follows 
    which uses the same words, the highlight colors may not be as expected.&nbsp; 
    A work-around to this behavior is to turn off search highlighting (using the 
    Options button on the Help file's toolbar) and reload the page by 
    re-selecting it from the original global search results.</td>
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